The Russian proposal is for the construction of six five-star hotels and 122 luxury villas, restaurants, shopping centres, an entertainment park and a yacht club on a state-owned land plot of 80 hectares near the top Adriatic resort of Dubrovnik. The site currently accommodates disused buildings.
The complex should be completed in 2015 and should create 5,000 jobs.
Every project of this kind must be approved through a tender procedure, Vecernji quoted unnamed government sources as saying.
Russian Technologies State Corporation is a legal body established by the Russian Federation Government to assist Russian industrial design and manufacturing organisations in developing, producing and exporting high technology industrial products on the domestic and foreign markets, and attracting investments to enterprises in various sectors of industry.
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